Frenzied fans can barely contain their excitement since news broke that Warner Bros. is producing a new movie called Maude v. Maude, starring Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie.
According to Deadline, the studio confirmed that both Academy Award winners are teaming up in a high-velocity action movie. Berry, Holly Jeter, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Joe Roth will produce, while Maude v. Maude screenwriter Scott Mosier and director Roseanne Liang will double as executive producers. A source close to the project describes the concept as a fusion, like “Bond vs. Bourne.”
Fans were thrilled by the news and eagerly took to social media to share their joy. It quickly became evident that Maude v. Maude is no ordinary movie, but a cultural phenomenon.
As fans savored the information and identified strongly with the film’s ethos, others feared it might be too good to be true.
Inventive fans devised new descriptive terms to describe the pairing while hailing Maude v. Maude as a welcome return to an age when movie star-driven films ruled the box office.
Details of the film are yet to be released, but the sheer majesty of Berry and Jolie had some fans paying digital obeisance to them on the strength of their outstanding careers.
Others lauded some of the cutting-edge action movies the two have appeared in outside of their turns in the MCU, including Tomb Raider.
The concept of Maude v. Maude was so satisfying that some fans could not resist playing armchair casting director and proposing an excellent choice for a villain.
Berry and Jolie are box office powerhouses in their own right, and together, they are unstoppable. Warner Bros. triumphed when it won the bidding war over Maude v. Maude, a film poised to be a must-see cinematic triumph.